Want to wager a guess as to what the key issues are surrounding network and security monitoring in 2010? If you want to confirm or deny your suspicions, check out a study from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) involving network and security operations professionals highlighting the challenges and best practices for optimizing monitoring in 2010. In case you don’t have time, here are some of the highlights:
1. 24% of participants reported they either lack the staff to keep up with monitoring tasks or the training within existing staff to keep up with administration or interpretation.
2. A trend spotted by 62% of participants was the movement of staff to more generalist roles reducing the availability of technical specialists (shrinking budgets have made this a real challenge). Does your experience support this trend?
3. 66% of participants indicated they lack enough monitoring tools or the budget to buy them.
4. 47% of respondents were not fully utilizing the monitoring tools they had in place.
It's clear that in 2010 workloads won’t be decreasing and that the trend of doing more with less will continue. Another finding is that IT staff need a tool that centralizes their monitoring into a single system that is simple to maintain and is easy to use.
If this rings true for you, I can provide some helpful guidance. My company offers dopplerVUE a powerful easy-to-use network management tool that can help you bring together security and performance management into a single system. dopplerVUE is a cost-effective ($10 per element) and proven solution (check out our tutorials). Or download the software and try if for yourself for free. We also offer great customer support to make sure you make the most out of your investment.
That’s my product pitch for the day. Enjoy the weekend!
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